2023-24 Franklin Furnace FUND awardees Caroline Garcia & Gabriela López Dena in An Infiltration into a Public Pool, a performance exploring the relationships between gendered bodies, bodies of water, and public space at a community pool.
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Since its inception in 1976, Franklin Furnace has resolutely pursued its mission to make the world safe for avant-garde art. We stay in close touch with a worldwide community which helps us identify pioneering emerging artists of every strip, protect their rights to free speech, and create a more just society for all. We trust you share our position, so please take action and join or renew your membership today and support our vital current programing. Check out Franklin Furnace’s community of current members.
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Your membership supports 2023-24 ongoing and new programs:
The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Arts, now in its 38th year, is supported in 2023-24 by Jerome Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, SHS Foundation and Silicon Valley Community Foundation. We will soon announce awards totaling $60,000 to bold and risk-taking early-career artists who will perform line in NYC and/or on the Franklin Furnace Digital LOFT.
Franklin Furnace continues sharing time-based art with the future generations via SEQ ART KIDS, its award-winning public school education program, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Philanthropic Trust, NYSCA, DCA, Art Shop Fund, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
In June, Franklin Furnace announced its new 2023 XENO PRIZE, two cash prizes of $5,000 each to be awarded in September 2023, for one LGBTQ+- identifying early-career performance artist working in one of the 18 United States which ban gender-affirming care; and one for an artist to publish an edition of artists’ books on the topic of book banning/burning. Named in honor of those who appreciate all people and cultures, XENO PRIZE recipients will be announced later this month.
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Martha Wilson’s Journal and a signed copy of Linda Greenhouse’s Justice on the Brink, available as perks for joining Franklin Furnace’s 2023-24 Community Membership Campaign.
Artists’ signs by Ilona Granet who made Franklin Furnace’s original sign. Work by Granet on display at WHAM! barbecue, a perk for joining Franklin Furnace’s 2023-24 Community Campaign.
Left: Micki Spillers Reading Outlaw logo, an element of the banned book artist-bookmarks available as a perk for joining Franklin Furnace’s 2023-24 Community Membership Campaign.
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